[PSYC85H3] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 40 pages long Study Guide!
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Less focus on scientists as objective fact finders, emphasis on some subjectivity. Scientific change depicted as a shift from one world view to another. Scientific discipline was not smooth, but developed discontinuously. Everyone believed one thing, then suddenly at critical point, radical change occurred and everyone changed their minds about methodology, data, theory, etc. Paradigm: set of fundamental beliefs that guide workers in a scientific discipline. Feminism: bringing the perspectives of women to bear on every aspect of contemporary culture, including psychology. 2 traditions: 1) similarities between genders, discounts importance of differences, 2) positive human characteristics that are undervalued because they are thought of as feminine . Perspectives of women addressed in many aspects of contemporary culture. Science ignores roles of intuition, empathy, personal engagement; seen as feminine attributes. Science-gender system: conception of gender and our conception of science mutually determine one another. Dialectic between nature and socially constructed world, the human organism is transformed.
